Archive for December 2009

Everyday Q & A, Part 5

Dec 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Quizes
project 365: day 227

These are the last five ques­tions of the pop­u­lar 25-​​​​question quiz. If you have missed the pre­vi­ous four install­ments, you can find them all here on our web­site: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Oth­er­wise, sharpen your mind for the final install­ment of ques­tions that are typ­i­cally not as easy as you might think.

Appar­ently the aver­age per­son gets only about seven right answers…



Brain fitness

Dec 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: News
(This is actually an ad for the ad agency Drive Communications, but it works better here.)

In a recent newslet­ter from Posit Sci­ence, a com­pany that spe­cial­izes in brain fit­ness, there is an inter­est­ing report about how exer­cis­ing ones mind can improve people’s qual­ity of life while aging. It is writ­ten by Lau­rie Orlov, from Aging in Place Technology Watch.

She refers to sev­eral stud­ies that show how mature adults can train their brains to age bet­ter, enabling them to keep liv­ing at home.…